A bad day 1 financially but I made some of it back yesterday.  I don’t think I’ll be betting much today as I’ve got such a busy day on – I’ll back a few rank outsiders to keep me interested. Latin America was well beaten in the bumper yesterday, but we were happy with the performance.  He couldn’t go the pace …

A busy weekend over that involved ferrying my children around to various party venues and shows. On Saturday Jane and I took the girls up to town with some of their friends to see “Wicked” – the untold story of the witches of Oz. The boys went to Wimbledon theatre with their grandmother to see Scooby Doo. We went to …

Two runners today – Astrodome goes at Fontwell and Hector Spectre runs at Lingfield. Astrodome is a horse I love, but he still has it to prove. He needed the experience last time, but he looked the part and the race worked out well. In particular he jumped really well – a couple of times he was squeezed or a …

Theophrastus ran a fairly poor race yesterday, but given that there was no pace to the race it wasn’t a great surprise.  They crept along for the first two miles and it turned into a sprint finish – Theo is a 3 mile chaser in the making and he would want a real slog.  He just didn’t have the speed …

Briefly this morning as I have no time; Peintre D’Argent runs in the 4:10 at Lingfield.  My last two runners have won, which means nothing other than that there is plenty of cash in my account.  I think Peintre has a decent chance with Richard Kingscote taking the ride.  She’s a galloper rather than a speedster and she doesn’t have any …

I had a terrible day betting yesterday, and for no good reason.  I was alone in the house, bored and with too much money in my account – a recipe for disaster.  If I only ever bet when I had a strong conviction then I’d do very well, but I’m succumbing to “boredom relief” type betting too often at the …

With so little racing on I’ve been watching the financial markets again, and it’s still carnage.  Our banks are slowly being nationalised, although in Barclays case they could end up being sold to Arab interests.    The biggest casualty of all is sterling – close to parity against the Euro now and at a 23 year low agaist the dollar having lost almost a third of …

This dark chocolate diet is amazing – I expected results but I didn’t expect them to come so quickly.  Yesterday, with my newly supercharged brain, I had what probably ranks as my best betting day ever.  My first three bets won at 50-1, 12-1 and 12-1, and I came back at the end of the day for one more large and reckless …

I’ve had the first pics of the new foal – will post when I have more time.  She’s very small – partly down to being born early but we think she’s small anyway, which is probably down to the fact that her mother had her very young.  She’s well though and looks good – chestnut at the moment although this can …